xaer0knight
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- Jan 31, 2016
Okay just a little background. Been a PC Tech for about 20 years and A+ Certified since early 2001. I keep the technology a little dated because I am not a hardcore gamer but I do enjoy games as new as They Bleed Pixels, Shovel Knight, Alan Wake, Dead Space 2, and Amnesia. I do watch a lot of Youtube HD and a lot TV on my PCs that are Internet connected. With that in mine, I wanted to get an Crossfire X board with a ton of options as a test bed and/or possibly my main machine.
So, here is the meat and potatoes of my situation. I found a great deal (?) on an ECS KA3-MVP V1.0 motherboard, everything has been tested and working great. The old MSI X300SE 128MB (64bit) DDR PCIe x16 (Version 2.0?) VGA/S-Video Out works great as a primary adapter which I must of pulled from an old HP dumpster dive special man years ago. But for the love of all things, I can't get any of my Radeon HD5450 cards to even work in it. I own a Gigabyte HD5450 GV-R545SL-1GI 1GB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP and a Sapphire HD5450 1G D3 (SKU 11166-02-CPO) PCI Express 2.0 x16. According to both Sapphire and Gigabyte they are crossfire.
I can't get the board to boot with either of these cards? Is it the PCI Express versions flaky compatibility? Crossfire X580 compatibility issue?
So, here is the meat and potatoes of my situation. I found a great deal (?) on an ECS KA3-MVP V1.0 motherboard, everything has been tested and working great. The old MSI X300SE 128MB (64bit) DDR PCIe x16 (Version 2.0?) VGA/S-Video Out works great as a primary adapter which I must of pulled from an old HP dumpster dive special man years ago. But for the love of all things, I can't get any of my Radeon HD5450 cards to even work in it. I own a Gigabyte HD5450 GV-R545SL-1GI 1GB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP and a Sapphire HD5450 1G D3 (SKU 11166-02-CPO) PCI Express 2.0 x16. According to both Sapphire and Gigabyte they are crossfire.
I can't get the board to boot with either of these cards? Is it the PCI Express versions flaky compatibility? Crossfire X580 compatibility issue?